Question

Find 25/2percent is less than 16hours

Answer 1

5 is 5% of 100.  12 is 12% of 100.  250 is 250% of 100.
For, a percent is a number of hundredths.  5 is 5 hundredths -- 5% -- of 100. That is the ratio of 5 to 100.  For a percent expresses a ratio, a relationship, between two numbers.  What ratio has 6 to 12?  6 is half of 12, or, in the language of percent, 6 is 50% of 12.
When the percent is less than or equal to 100%, then we can say "out of" 100.  25% is 25 out of 100.  But 250% cannot mean 250 out of 100 -- that makes no sense.  It means 250 for each 100, which is two and a half times. (